Category: ukulele stories

  • Video of Uke for Geeks talk at Ignite Sydney

    A month or so ago I posted my slides and some photos from my Ignite Sydney talk. Today I just noticed that the video was up on YouTube (yays). Unfortunately, there’s a person’s head obscuring the view of the ukulele for most of my talk, and I kind of start ignoring the slides after a…

  • Ukulele for Geeks, live in Tokyo

    (A few snaps of my talk from the Tokyo 2.0 PechaKucha night the other evening.)

  • Ukulele for geeks: secrets of the pentatonic scales

    My Ignite Sydney talk last night was fun (for me, at least). Here are my slides: Ukulele For Geeks: Secrets of the Pentatonic ScalesView more presentations from Christian Crumlish. Here are a few audience shots. The first is from a warmup: This one is from the actual talk: Dag, my chrome dome has almost completely…

  • evangeline

    evangeline Originally uploaded by xian she is the queen of make-believe my new electric uke (hollowbody tenor ukulele with pickup)

  • by jove

    i think i’m getting the hang of this fretted instrument thing. also, anyone speak french? some ukulele guy wrote something on his blog. jeff? annie?

  • The kid can carry a tune

    I’m still way a beginner, with incredibly amateurish chops, and yet look at how I am able to amuse myself already: Layers of Meta: Fire on the Mountain, take 2, basic uke feel track